The key to the Fountain of Youth might lie, in your refrigerator. In a hard-boiled egg, to be exact.
A
team of scientists from California and Australia might have unlocked
one of life’s biggest secrets when they discovered how to 'unboil' an
egg.
Yes, you read that right. Unboiling is actually possible.
“They
figured out how to untangle the proteins that get mixed together when
an egg is cooked,” explains cosmetic chemist Randy Schueller.
The beauty angle? Imagine if we could do the same with the proteins in our hair and skin.
“The
ultimate beauty invention would be a ‘protein unscrambler’ that would
let us control the bend in our hair or even prevent a wrinkle.”
If
this technology does eventually have practical applications in hair or
skin care, according to Schueller, it would most likely be in the area
of reversing damage to hair or skin proteins.
For
example, it could possibly lead to a product that allows us to
reconfigure the shape of hair from straight to curly and back to
straight again.
We can only hope for this miracle to be actualised.
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